Ryder Cup Captain Luke Donald heads packed discipline for Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

These embrace defending champion Thomas Pieters, plus fellow former winners Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry, for the 18th version. 2018 Open Champion Francesco Molinari, three-time Main winner Padraig Harrington, three-time DP World Tour winner Ryan Fox and rising star Sepp Straka additionally function in a packed discipline.

Abu Dhabi Sports activities Council has confirmed free normal admission tickets for all event days, giving followers within the UAE the chance to witness the world-class discipline in individual without cost for the second-successive yr at Yas Hyperlinks. A variety of premium-experience tickets begin from Dh1,200.

Go to abudhabichampionship.com to accumulate all ticket sorts, plus discover details about this unmissable occasion.

The four-day Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship provides a pageant of leisure for all of the household on Yas Island. Attendees will uncover a championship village full with an enormous vary of meals and beverage choices, sports activities and stay music.

Moreover, all 20 gamers named within the Hero Cup, a brand new match play event staged in Abu Dhabi the week prior between Continental Europe and Nice Britain and Eire, will begin their 2023 DP World Tour season at Yas Hyperlinks.

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre, who claimed his second DP World Tour title in October on the DS Cars Italian Open at Marco Simone Golf and Nation Membership, the host venue of the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome, Italy, is considered one of many DP World Tour stars hoping to safe a place for Workforce Europe come September.

His Excellency Aref Al Awani, Basic Secretary of Abu Dhabi Sports activities Council, stated: “There is a superb group of gamers breaking by and we’re delighted to welcome these future stars to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Hyperlinks later this month.”

The profitable transfer to Yas Island in 2022 heralded a brand new chapter for the event which highlights Abu Dhabi as a global sports activities hub with the season ending F1 Championship and Final Combating Championship additionally taking residency on the world-class venue.

The DP World Tour confirmed all Rolex Sequence occasions in 2023 could have a complete prize fund of $9 million – a rise of $1m from the 2022 prize. The 2023 event would be the second of 4 occasions forming the Center East swing, as Abu Dhabi prepares to host two weeks of world class golf throughout a number of venues.

Abdulfattah Sharaf, HSBC UAE CEO and Head of Worldwide Markets, stated: “HSBC has been supporting new visions and alternatives throughout the UAE since we first opened our doorways for enterprise right here greater than 75 years in the past.

“We’re delighted to help a world class sporting occasion right here in Abu Dhabi and excited to welcome main names in golf alongside rising younger expertise. Everyone seems to be welcome on the beautiful Yas Hyperlinks later this month the place entry tickets are free for all.”

Yas Island is Abu Dhabi’s premier leisure, retail and leisure hub, main the way in which in supporting the emirate’s Financial Imaginative and prescient 2030. The brand new venue provides a singular mix of beautiful views, first-class hospitality and a various vary of award-winning leisure and leisure points of interest, enhancing the expertise for followers, whether or not they attend in individual or watch from around the globe.

Yas Hyperlinks Abu Dhabi, designed by Kyle Phillips, opened in 2010 and ranked thirty fourth in Golf Digest’s 2022 world checklist of High 100 programs. It additionally hosted the golf component of the 2019 Particular Olympics World Video games.